arXiv Machine Learning

KrishokChat: A Provenance-Traceable Multi-Task Bengali Agricultural Benchmark with Safety-Critical Chemical Advisory

arXiv:2606. 29243v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce KrishokChat, an 85,979-instance Bengali agricultural benchmark built from 284 government publications, 13 institutions, and six regional dialects.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Register Shifts Break LLM Safety: A Bengali Benchmark with Culturally Grounded Harms

The paper introduces BanglaSafe, a benchmark of 879 Bengali prompts that covers 17 culturally grounded harm categories and five prompting conditions. Evaluation of 18 frontier LLMs shows that 53.6% of responses are unsafe or partially unsafe, with 14.7% containing strictly harmful content. The study finds that the writing style within Bengali has a stronger impact on safety than the language switch itself, and that current safety classifiers struggle to reliably evaluate Bengali content.

By Naymul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sabik Bin Sultan, Abdullah Khan Zehady
arXiv AI
Sep 25

IndicBankBench: Evaluating Safety and Reliability of Language Model Assistants in Indian Retail Banking

IndicBankBench is a 799‑case benchmark designed to evaluate the safety and reliability of language model assistants in Indian retail banking. It covers five operational domains, a capability/refusal domain, and twenty primary axes, assessing each case at four stages: safety, action and tool use, response adequacy, and advisory quality. The benchmark uses deterministic safety checks, a narrow resolver for ambiguous confirmation‑before‑write scenarios, and an LLM judge for semantic response adequacy, reporting strict pass rates that reveal a gap between strict reliability (43.7%–58.2%) and at‑least‑once success (60%–74%).

By Suvradip Paul, Chandra Bhushan, Harsh Sharma, Nitin Kukreja, Yatharth Dedhia, Keyur Doshi, Prashant Devadiga
arXiv AI
Sep 4

IndicSafeEval: Safety Robustness of Large Language Models under Multilingual Persuasive Jailbreak Attacks

IndicSafeEval is a new evaluation framework that tests the safety robustness of large language models against persuasion-based jailbreak attacks in Indian languages. The benchmark includes 7,200 adversarial prompts covering ten safety-critical content categories, six persuasive strategies, and four languages (Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi). Experiments show that model safety varies significantly across languages, prompt styles, and risk categories, revealing that current English-centric safety evaluations miss important multilingual vulnerabilities.

By Saikat Mondal, Mamta, Deeksha Varshney, Oana Cocarascu, Asif Ekbal
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Validity-Aware Jailbreak Evaluation for Large Language Models

The paper introduces SEAV, a verification‑centric framework for evaluating jailbreak attempts against large language models. SEAV decomposes responses into ordered steps and checks both validity and correctness using LLM‑as‑a‑judge and retrieval‑grounded verification. The method reduces false positives by 14.9 percentage points on a strategic‑dishonesty diagnostic and reclassifies 22.1–51.0% of previously successful jailbreaks as invalid across multiple benchmarks.

By Qilong Wu, Sahil Wadhwa, Pranab Mohanty, Giri Iyengar, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records

KhatianDoc is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on Bengali legal land records, specifically the handwritten RS Khatians used in Bangladesh. The benchmark comprises four tasks—symbol recognition, base‑16 to decimal conversion, structured field extraction, and legal document question answering—drawn from 107 real records and 1,634 QA pairs. Six multimodal LLMs were evaluated under a zero‑shot protocol, revealing that many models fail to answer a significant portion of questions correctly and perform poorly on arithmetic conversion, highlighting a lack of capability rather than a performance gap.

By Tasmiad Hasan, Arafat Zaman Ratul, Sarker Sadman Saalim, S. M. Shah Nawaz Hossain, Khan Raiyan Ibne Reza, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

IndicSafeEval: Safety Robustness of Large Language Models under Multilingual Persuasive Jailbreak Attacks

IndicSafeEval is a new evaluation framework that tests the safety robustness of large language models against persuasion-based jailbreak attacks in Indian languages. The benchmark covers ten safety-critical content categories, six persuasive strategies, and four languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Punjabi—producing 7,200 adversarial prompts. Experiments show that model safety varies significantly across languages, prompt styles, and risk categories, highlighting gaps in current English-centric safety assessments.